Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, at Columbia University, Sevellon Brown helped open the first seminar of the American Press Institute. Thirty-eight publishers had thought enough of his idea to chip in $170,000 to finance a two-year trial run. Aim: through marathon bull sessions, to add a cubit to the stature of the U.S. press. Plan: for two to four weeks each, groups of 25 working newspapermen (average age of the first 25 students, 44; average newspaper experience, 22 years) would face a tougher grind than any undergraduate class. They would live, study and argue together, from eight to twelve hours...
...scrimmage itself featured an eleven composed mostly of "A" team performers against a Jayvee squad, in which the work of Chip Gannon and George Hauptfuhrer was noteworthy. Today's practice will feature another scrimmage, and the rest of the men slated to to see duty against the Tigers will...
Every year rheumatic fever kills far more children than polio. Dramatic publicity has led the public to chip in over $94 per polio patient for research and treatment, but for every rheumatic fever victim, only 3? has been spent. For such work as the new Hopkins program, 146 U.S. insurance companies recently set up a joint research fund. Said Dr. Schwentker last week: "They have begun to realize that a crippled heart is worse than a withered...
...tory of the third-class coach, closed the door, forced the window and climbed out. "At intervals telegraph poles whisked past our noses with a blowing noise, like seals coming up to breathe on a pitch-dark night ... I jumped ... I found myself doing neck rolls down a granite-chip embankment. I came to rest in a little gully. . . . It was stifling, suffocating, wonderful to be free...
Middleton's aggressiveness will be a change from Atkinson's urbane inquisitiveness. Colleagues are curious to see whether Middleton will check his shoulder chip at the Russian frontier. Says National Correspondent James ("Scotty") Reston, himself a Times topnotcher: "Moscow will be good for his temper. It will teach him patience or kill...